Hong Kong Ordinances

PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION ORDINANCE - SECT 36

Appointment of administrator of intestate's estate

Where a person dies wholly intestate as to his estate or leaving a will
affecting estate but without having appointed an executor thereof willing and
competent to take probate, or where the executor is, at the time of the death
of such person, resident out of Hong Kong, or where it appears to the court to
be necessary or convenient to appoint some person to be the administrator of
the estate of the deceased person or of any part of such estate, other than
the person who, if this Ordinance had not been passed, would by law have been
entitled to a grant of administration of such estate, the court may, subject
to section 25, appoint such person as the court thinks fit to be such
administrator, on his giving such security, if any, as may be required under
this Part or as the court may direct, and every such administration may be
limited in such manner as the court thinks fit. [cf. 1857 c. 77 s. 73 U.K.]